The developer grant program involves coding while the community awards program revolves around people.
Current focus areas of the developer grant program include:
- Canister Development Kits (CDKs) & Agents
- Developer Tooling (e.g. IDEs, debuggers, logging libraries)
- Infrastructure (e.g. oracles, asset bridges)
- Integrations & APIs (e.g. chat, email, maps)
- Dapps & Open Internet Services
Example projects for the community awards program include:
- Events - Any online or IRL event ensuring evangelization of ICP and its adoption can apply for this grant. The event should focus on ICP tech experience/use cases or developer/entrepreneur/enterprise awareness/onboarding. These can be hackathons, pitch days, conferences, talent fairs, meetups etc.
- Education - Any educational initiatives which aim to educate developers, entrepreneurs, users, and enterprises. These initiatives can be top-of-the-funnel or bottom-of-the-funnel initiatives like boot camps, incubators, accelerators, curriculum integrations, etc.
- Content - The content that highlights the ICP tech, ecosystem, community, adoption, new initiatives, partnerships, projects, announcements, etc. These can be blogs, publications, research papers, videos, SM posts, podcasts, infographics, interviews, documentaries, newsletters, music, websites, etc.
Specific examples for Request for Proposals (RFPs) and Bounties can be found on GitHub.
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